Michel Nussenzweig
The Rockefeller University
USA
Dr. Nussenzweig was born in Sao Paulo Brazil on February 10th 1955. He received a B.S. summa cum laude from New York University in 1976, a Ph.D. degree from the Rockefeller University in 1981 and an M.D. degree from New York University Medical School in 1982. During his PhD Dr. Nussenzweig with Ralph Steinman he discovered that dendritic cells are antigen presenting cells. After completing a medical internship, and residency, and infectious fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital he joined Dr. Philip Leder in the department of genetics at Harvard Medical School for postdoctoral training. He returned to Rockefeller University in 1990 as an assistant professor and Howard Hughes Investigator to head an independent laboratory. He was promoted to professor in 1996 and holds the Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Chair of Immunology. He is a member of the the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institue of Medicine and the US National Academy of Sciences. Among other prizes Dr. Nussenzweig was awarded The Robert Koch Award in 2016 and the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Award in 2017.